Places Allen Thomas Wants to Go

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.